Word: bernsteins
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Many great composers have written a Mass to prove their ultimate skill. Latest to try is Leonard Bernstein, who had already set a Hebrew prayer for the dead (Kaddish) to music in his third symphony. By all accounts, his trip through the Roman Catholic liturgy will be something to see as well as hear. Along with the usual array of orchestra, choir and soloists, the Alvin Ailey dance company will appear before scenery by Oliver Smith. "It is an entirely new concept," says Bernstein, but he refuses to give many details. "I don't want to take away...
Among the top editors of Time Inc.'s other magazines LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED-are several TIME veterans. Other alumni have achieved comparable success elsewhere. Newsweek's editor in chief, Osborn Elliott, its managing editor, Lester Bernstein, and its executive editor, Robert Christopher, are all former TIME staffers. At the New York Times, Foreign Editor James Greenfield, Correspondents Eric Pace and Charles Mohr, Reporters Israel Shenker and John Noble Wilford, to name only a few, are former TIME correspondents or writers. So are Editor T George Harris of Psychology Today, syndicated Newsday Columnist Nick Thimmesch, Michael Demarest...
...director of merchandising for Columbia Records, Munves was the man who dreamed up that company's "Classical Greatest Hits" series-Bach, Brahms, Bernstein, just about anyone. The records did nothing for the purists, but they scored a solid bull's-eye in the market and rang up $1,000,000 in new and unexpected wholesale revenues for Columbia. Munves was also the first executive to turn on to Switched-On Bach, when almost everyone else at Columbia was turning off. Now, 2½ years after its release, Bach on the Moog synthesizer is still...
Other composers, for Munves, do not include serialists or the majority of post-Bartok contemporaries, who he feels have no mass-market appeal. "I simply cannot go on taking a bath for those guys," he says. "Only four or five of them are writing for the people. Like Lenny Bernstein. I think West Side Story is one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century because it combines the classics with the vernacular." Munves particularly mourns the disappearance of good old-fashioned melody. When he says, "It all started with that nogoodnik Schoenberg," he is having a laugh, but only...
...Radical Chic" was the epigram with which Writer Tom Wolfe skewered a party given by Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife to raise a defense fund for the 13 New York Black Panthers just acquitted of conspiracy (see THE NATION). That widely publicized gathering last year proved to be a debacle for Bernstein-he was booed on the podium, picketed by the Jewish Defense League, editorially scolded by the New York Times, and flooded with hate-mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic...